After starting to use Arch I switched to xterm and urxvt terminal and enjoyed the flexibility of them (esp. scaleHeight resource). However, I don't understand why sometimes configs work with Xterm and ...

I tried with xrdb -query -all. But it does not give the Xterm default background color code. My background color is cornflower blue. But I could not see that in list. Can any one let me know how to ...

I would like cssh to use terminator terminal emulator, instead of the default xterm. In ~/.clusterssh/config I have changed the following line:
#terminal=/usr/bin/xterm
terminal=/usr/bin/terminator
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I have a blinking block cursor in the XTerm. The goal is to always be able to tell my current position. It usually works fine, but it fails when I place my cursor on a background similar to the cursor ...

i have never been able to get my terminal to display unicode symbols. for example, before i had my present os, i mapped ctrl+a to the greek mu in vim, and it works on other computers, but not on my ...

I can't get emacs (version 24.4.1) in text mode (-nw launch option) to display Unicode characters directly. It outputs them in escaped form, e.g. ä becomes \344. When I save the file, it is encoded as ...

I'm triying to install VNC Server in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5. I have the .rpm of VNC Server, but it has a depedency with xterm, which I have the .rpm too. Trying to install xterm ...

I am running elinks (0.12pre5) in an xterm window in Openbox on a Debian netinstall (7.8) with fairly minimal changes/additional software installation. I have changed a few elinks options, but none ...

From time to time, when I SSH from my Android device to my home Linux server my terminal randomly start overwriting text that was previously outputted. I am using JuiceSSH as my SSH client, and I've ...

If I log on from a RHEL 6.5/GNOME notebook via SSH using gnome-terminal to an OpenBSD install, the UTF-8 support is OK.
But if I use OpenBSD / fvwm2 / xterm locally, not via SSH, then it just misses ...

For most vim colorschemes, they appear different than advertised when I open vim in xterm.
I've been using xterm-256color and set t_Co=256.
A similar thing happens when I use xfce-terminal, but the ...

To begin with, I am on Lubuntu, so I can benefit from the latest screen patches that will enable vertical splitting of windows with no need to compile from source. (It really took ages...)
However, ...

As I understand it, when typing characters in a terminal emulator they appear because they are "echoed". We imagine that the terminal is a separate device communicating with the computer via a two-way ...

Hi I'd like to change the key mappings slightly in xfce4-terminal, maybe similar to adding Xterm.VT100.translations to .Xresources.
In particular, I want to make ctrl-backspace delete the last word, ...

Is there a way to set different $TERM for different terminal emulators. For example if I am in xterm the $TERM will read xterm-256color, in urxvt urxvt-256color, in sakura xterm-256color and in tmux ...